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100 Pesos
| Issuer | El Banco Español de la Habana |
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| Year | 186x |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Red and black intaglio print on cream paper; central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure with a harbor and industrial scene in the background, flanked by two guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral 100. Bold ornate letterpress inscription reads EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA HABANA, with SUCURSAL EN SAGUA LA GRANDE above. Two detachable side stub panels with serial number and registry fields. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA HABANA / SUCURSAL DE SAGUA LA GRANDE / LA SUCURSAL EN SAGUA LA GRANDE / EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA HABANA / à la presentacion de este billete pagara al portador CIEN pesos fuertes en efectivo / SAGUA LA GRANDE / El Director / El Administrador / El Cajero / Número de orden ó de emisión / Número de la toma de razon / Serie 1ª / SUCURSAL SAGUA LA GRANDE |
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El Banco Español de la Habana was founded in 1856 as the sole authorized bank of issue in Cuba under Spanish colonial administration — a monopoly it jealously defended against any rival institution for decades. The National Bank Note Company, before its 1879 merger into the American Bank Note Company, printed for a considerable range of Latin American and Caribbean clients, and this note is among the more substantial denominations in that relationship.
The "186x" dating indicates the year's final digit was completed by hand at issue, placing it somewhere in the 1860s — a decade when Cuba's colonial economy was under severe strain from the tensions that would eventually erupt in the Ten Years' War beginning in 1868.